History was never the fetich of my girlhood, and that quartette of dry-as-dust worthies whom Leo carries around in leash, as other women carry pugs and poodles, came near giving me meningitis in my tender years.
Several moments elapsed before Judge Parkman replied, and he gnawed the end of his grizzled mustache, debating the consequences of dishonoring precedent--that fetich of the Bench.
Perish the fetich of needle-work, crochet and knitting!
The great fetich does not seem to me in any way worshipful.
Some of us will live to see this fetich of regimental instruction of everybody disappear as astrology has disappeared.
The cry of "discontent" has become a fetich among unthinking politicians.
Sidenote: Müller and Spencer agree in rejecting the fetich hypothesis.
A fetich possesses this very special distinction, that it is the property of the person who adores it.
A rite, at its lowest, is simply the result of a tendency to repeat indefinitely an act which, at some time or other, has seemed to render a god or a fetich propitious.
The fetich theory of providence still subsists, in the belief in medals, scapularies, and so forth.
Every fetich is a spirit, no spirit can be for a primitive intelligence anything else than the spirit of someone who is dead.
Max Müller sees in this fact (which, by the way, may be contested) a fresh argument against the fetich theory.
Nothing less than the conception of a soul, in Mr. Spencer’s judgment, will serve the fetich hypothesis; and primitive man certainly could not attain the notion of a soul by mere observation of nature.
The words fetich, animate being, inanimate being, and so forth, seem to us to have given rise to a number of misunderstandings, on the part both of those who are defending the fetichtheory and of those who are attacking it.
Mr. Spencer undertakes even to demonstrate a priori the falsity of the fetich theory.
Sidenote: Inexactitude of facts on which the fetich theory is founded.
A fetich is a vulgar object, possessing no value in itself, but which a negro preserves, venerates, adores, because he believes that it is the dwelling place of a spirit.
Pliny says nothing of the fetich qualities of the plant, as credited in modern and mediaeval Germany, but mentions 'sufficient it is with some bodies to cast them into sleep with the smel of mandrago.
If a negro tells us his fetich is a god, whence got he the idea of 'god'?
Atkinson, who has for many years studied the manners of the people of New Caledonia, asked a native why he treasured a certainfetich stone.
We may observe the persistence of the ceremony by which the monarch, at his coronation, takes his seat on the sacred stone of Scone, probably an ancient fetich stone.
The negro, if he tells a white man that a fetich is a god, transposes terms in the same unscientific way.
For which reason no Fetich ever receives permission to slay a man, except directly from the Creator.
Exactly thus is empty Mallarmé the fetich of the Symbolists, who, it must be admitted, are intellectually far below the Senegal negroes.
The sorcerers of the Senegal negroes offer their congregation baskets and calabashes for veneration, in which they assert that a mighty fetich is enclosed.
He can have all the virtues without the fetich, and he may have the fetich and all the vices beside.
The fetich furnishes excuse for the hypnotic processes.
I am against the men who pretend to believe that ethics without a fetich is vain and useless.
Varinet, you have a fetich of very doubtful value.
There is nothing in science, properly so called, which justifies the exaltation either of matter or man to the rank of gods even of the lowest fetich order.
Although the fetich consulted by him presaged that they would meet with a thousand dangers before reaching the sea, this monarch supplied them with an extra canoe, some rowers, and a guide.
The sinister predictions of the fetich were soon fulfilled.
The wonder is that women themselves should either believe that such unholy proceedings were inspired by God, or make a fetich of the very book which is responsible for their civil and social degradation.
Weeks even says that on the Congo the village medicine-man is seldom engaged at home; for the people know that his fetich cannot protect him or his from harm and, therefore, hire some one from another village of whom they know less.
Similarly, a fetich sometimes becomes a merely magical talisman or amulet.
Wizards discover thieves and murderers, or sell a fetich by whose power an evil-doer walks invisible, if he takes care not to be seen.
But a candidate without family connexion is told that he must first kill by witchcraft all the members of his family, as offerings to the fetich of that branch of the profession to which he aspires.
We know by the man's statement that he was for many years living among tribes where poisons of this kind are used by the wizards and fetich men to support their authority and to remove persons against whom they have a grudge.
Religion, possessing an old fetich did not run the risk of breaking the run of luck by discarding it, but wisely retained and renamed it.
For obvious reasons the fetich gives out that Mbwiri regards good living with aversion.
He popped it with alacrity into his little grass bag; for white man's hair is fetich of the first order.
In this stage the ideal of a large and rapidly increasing birth-rate became a popular fetich before which all men and women were supposed to fall down and render worship.
The fetich may be either flowing hair or braided hair, but is usually one or the other, and not both.
From that time white underlinen and white dresses became to him a fetich and he was only attracted to women so attired.
As soon as the fetich becomes isolated and omnipotent, so that the person sinks into the background as an unimportant appendage of the fetich, all stability is lost.
That is to say that the fetichist may show a tendency to cultivate his fetich in his own person.
In another class of cases a purely ideal symbolism may be present by means of a fetich which acts as a powerful stimulus without itself being felt to possess any attraction.
So long as the fetich is subordinated to the person it serves to heighten love.
For I had made her a respectable, orderly doll to take the place of the ungainly fetich out on the barren.
I have heard that the people want you; they only desire to kill you, for they want to get your skull; they want to make a fetich of your hair.
And if one of all these things you see," said he to me, "were missing, the fetich or monda would be good for nothing.
Then Querlaouen showed me a fetich partly made of two huge claws of this bird.
He placed the leopard at my feet, saying, "Did I not tell you I had a fetich to kill leopards?
Remandji also said, "Did I not tell you I had a man who had a big fetich to kill leopards?
Sometimes I wonder why we do cling to that old fetich of the East.
One of the most pronounced and harmful golfing fallacies is what I call "the fetich of the left.
I think that this consideration of the subject will give those who put their faith in the fetich of the left, something to explain.
We see here that Mr. Travis is also an adherent of the fetich of the sweep, but we must in his case call it the fetich of the "swish.
The trouble with the fetich of the left is that not only is it a perfectly unnatural proceeding, but it is also, on that account, something extra for the golfer to cumber his mind with during his swing.
Taylor also subscribes to the fetich of the sweep.
The votaries of this fetich must surely find one thing very hard to explain.
Mr. Travis also comes into line with the general body of golfing opinion with regard to the fetich of the left.
This is valuable corroboration, for it must be remembered that Vardon only subscribes to the fetich of the left by implication.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "fetich" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
